Business and Economics
Business and Economics
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Free Web Sites
Free Web Sites
Official Sites
Official Sites
U.S. Small Business Administration
The official business link to the U.S. Government.Consumer Price Index Calculator
Find out what a dollar was worth from 1913 to the present. From the Minneapolis Federal Reserve.Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Economic and social data on countries around the world, from the World Bank."A premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students."American Time Use Survey (ATUS)
"Measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing."Small Business Innovation Research
"SBIR & STTR Solicitations - Find opportunities from different government agencies, Conference and Events Center - Find government sponsored SBIR/STTR events, Federal Agency Links - A list of Federal Agencies with SBIR/STTR programs,State Resources - Find assistance in your State, Links - Find more SBIR/STTR resources, Past Awards - Search the Small Business Administration's site for past awards."Small Business Administration Tools
"SBA's suite of tools can help you at any stage of your business venture. From initial counseling and business planning to contracting with the government and finding seminars to grow your business – there's something for every entrepreneur to get the help they need.""An open-access, interactive ebook-based course for anyone interested in learning about the economy and economics." A free, online Economics course put together by an international team of economists."EconBiz is a subject portal for economics and business studies. It offers: A literature search across important German and international databases, including the holdings of ZBW; Access to free and licensed full texts on the internet; A calendar of events for scholarly conferences and summer schools; The reference service Research Guide EconDesk which answers your questions about the search for literature and statistical data.; The section research skills with the online tutorial Guided Walk on how to search, evaluate and cite scholarly publications.""Explore globalEDGE Insights by Classification to learn more about Emerging, Frontier, and Mature markets. Check out the markets' Resources, Risk Comparator, and Statistics to utilize interactive graphs and charts of economic, governmental, and financial data about the countries in each classification."Back to Top
Business Sites
Business Sites
"Designed to be the executive’s interface to the Internet.""As the largest open database of companies in the world, our business is making high-quality, official company data openly available."The American Small Business Association.
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Jim Blasingame: The Small Business Advocate
"How-to articles, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news, business directory listings, product comparisons, business guides, a business association and more."From Entrepreneur magazine. Includes a "Starting a Business" section."Franchise opportunities, or read thousands ofarticles, news stories, how-to guides, andinformational profiles which will assist you in finding the right opportunity."Service Corps of Retired Executives."Free and confidential small business advice for entrepreneurs"Back to Top
Local Information
Local Information
Stock Market
Stock Market
For financial news.Historical stock prices from Yahoo!Finance."A variety of tools that cover the spectrum from investment basics to company fundamentals and online portfolio management."Find the symbol of a stock. From the Globe and Mail.
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Currency Rates
Currency Rates
"A multi-lingual Currency Converter with up to date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors ... filtered for validity." From OANDA.
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XE.com - The Universal Currency Converter
"Interactive foreign exchange (FX, or forex) rate calculations, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates."Calculators compare the relative worth of things in different currencies and at different periods of history.Back to Top
Legal Information
Legal Information
"Web search utilities, cases and codes, legal news, and more.""The best online legal sources in a fast 'single-view' format."
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